Summit Agenda

 

Thursday, 20 November 2025

Main Summit Stage

Following opening speeches by Commission officials, the session wraps up recent work on bi-directional charging, notably the latest developments related to the implementation of the revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED), the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR), and the Automotive Action Plan. The achievements of the collaboration between the Commission's energy and transport expert groups (D4E- Data for Energy, and STF – Sustainable Transport Forum), with the involvement of the Coalition of the Willing (CoW) for bidirectional charging will be also presented to inform on the recommendations about smart and bi-directional charging of electric vehicles and related flexibility services, bridging the gap between the digital, the energy and mobility sectors.

09:00 to 10:15

KEYNOTES

10:15 to 11:15

Across Europe, V2G is beginning to transition from pilot projects to real commercial offerings. The Automotive Action Plan calls for conducive frameworks already allowed by the current EU legislation that address regulatory, technical and market challenges to foster large-scale V2G deployment. The regulatory sandbox for V2G pilots announced in the Automotive Action Plan will help frame such schemes, by encouraging Member States to explore their feasibility and by providing examples of actions that can be implemented by Member States, possibly deviating from national legislations.

In countries like France, the Netherlands or Finland, the combination of supportive policy, bundled offerings, and smart tariffs is proving that V2G-AC is ready to scale. Feedback on such initiatives will be shared during that session.

11:45 to 12:30

The session addresses the needed interoperability between EVs, charging columns or wallboxes (EVSEs), protocols and backends, for supporting and exchanging energy with the distribution grids. Missing an efficiently targeted pathway to achieve such interoperability is a crucial barrier for rolling out V2G technologies. It requires international, legally accepted standards and public key infrastructures for EV-EVSE as well as EVSE-grid communication, including levels of cybersecurity that shield the threats of today. The goal is to enable European industry to realise economies of scale with successful, new bidirectional product generations. Comprehensive, yet prioritised use-case elaboration and physical testing possibilities need to be consolidated fast and in a way that safeguards industrial prototypes and IPRs. Given the importance of the world markets for the EU, interoperability is ideally achieved in cooperation with experts from all market-pertinent world regions, in order to pave the way for a blooming V2G industry that includes a certification service industry. Participants discuss these aspects from the viewpoints of EV-makers, distribution system operators (DSOs), academic experts, accredited testing houses and the Operating Agent of the IEA in this field.

12:30 to 13:00 POSTER SESSION

As V2G technologies and standards mature, it becomes essential to establish vibrant innovation ecosystems for V2G, ensuring that vehicles, charging infrastructures, energy management and grid operation systems communicate, exchange data and operate seamlessly. The spotlight session addresses V2G in logistics and fleet charging scenarios and puts a focus on commercial opportunities of V2G for companies to operate and scale groups of EVs, e.g. for benefitting from community services or allowing V2G fleets can participate in wholesale markets and balancing services. While common blueprints illustrate the flow of information and exchange of critical data points between the EV and the electricity grid, EV owners or fleet operators need to collect and aggregate data on logistics and charging patterns before they can benefit from flexible energy services. Becoming an energy aggregator poses challenges for fleet managers, who must combine the resources of numerous individual energy assets to create a large, scalable pool of demand-side flexibility often called virtual power plant (VPP). The session will address the role of potential blueprints for energy aggregators, and potential of standardised VPP framework as baseline for providing flexibility services.

14:00 to 16:15

The formal standardisation process constantly faces the challenges of a fast-changing technological environment, both in the EV charging ecosystem and in the digital domain. Open Source Software (OSS) is expected to increase the rapid development of highly innovative implementations, enabling fast testing and implementation of emerging technical specifications. Hence, the interaction between OSS and formal standardisation development organisations has the potential to accelerate the definition and adoption of new standards, especially in the EV charging domain, where several V2G-related examples exist. The session will address how to create a win-win situation for Open source communities and Standardisation development organisations (SDOs). It will also reflect on the role and benefits of open source communities, while emphasising the need for convergence with the stability and predictability that formal SDOs provide at the international level.

Commercial solutions must unlock the full value of electric vehicles as flexible assets capable of reducing the TCO for both the EV owner as well as for supporting decarbonisation and grid stabilisation. For reaching firm consumer participation, it is instrumental to reduce upfront capital costs for bidirectional charging as well as to benefit from financial incentives for energy services. At this stage common blueprints illustrate the flow of information and exchange of critical data, the technology could be advancing through a mix of architectures like V2G-AC and -DC working together to meet diverse market needs. Considering commercial solutions for bidirectional charging entering the market, the session addresses the need of standardised SW frameworks and provision made by automotive OEMs to accelerate up-take and how to achieve scale-up of required enabling V2X standards.

16:45 to 18:15

Moderation: Chris Heron, Secretary General, E-Mobility Europe